Alongside Dracula and Frankenstein, Universal Pictures’ The Wolf Man stands as one of the more iconic movie monsters in history. While not the first attempt to bring the transformation of man to wolf to the silver screen, The Wolf Man is the quintessential werewolf film, the basis for werewolf films to follow. Outside of the […]
Month: May 2014
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The 15 Best Noir Films Of The 1950s
Film noir, which had begun in the 1940’s, continued into the 1950’s, although there were obvious changes to the style. Gone were the hard boiled detective stories of Phillip Marlowe and Sam Spade, replaced by more unpredictable, violent figures like Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer and stories that emphasized psychological character studies. The stories become more […]
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The 20 Most Anticipated Movies In The History Of Hollywood
There are several factors that can create anticipation leading up to the releases of certain movies. Often, it’s the sequels (and sometimes prequels) to wildly popular films that get people excited, though adaptations of bestselling novels and comic books have been awaited with almost equal degrees of enthusiasm, especially in the last couple of decades. […]
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20 Masterpieces of Luis Buñuel Every Film Fan Should See
Born in Spain and exiled for a majority of his career, Luis Buñuel created a filmography of works that ranged from surreal Parisian shorts to psychosexual Mexican features (and everything in between). His films commonly attacked institutions (religion, society, bourgeois culture) and reconstructed narrative language (often at the expense of spatial/temporal continuity). Buñuel’s direction and […]
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10 Essential George A. Romero Films Every Horror Fan Should See
Zombies could easily be classed as movie monsters rivalling the likes of Vampires, Werewolves and Ghosts. Their infiltration into the cinematic playing field has been slow and disjointed, much like the creatures themselves. The golden era of zombie movies was probably the 1980s when a plethora of these movies rose up to greet eager cinema […]
10 Reasons Why You Should See ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’
Last weekend the world was given the first blockbuster of the year in Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla, but the blockbuster season truly started with the release of Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days Of Future Past. The film marks Singer’s return to the X-Men franchise after an eleven year absence, and although X-Men: First Class and last summer’s […]